On 25/02/2008, Joshua Scotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 19:23 +, Andrew Barber wrote:
Does sage maybe work with wine?
Probably, but do you really want to trust your financial data to what
would be an emulated (hence buggy, as most wine emulated programs do not
On 23/02/2008, Steve Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 11:41 +, Andy Watts wrote:
Hi people
l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before..
l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with
Ubuntu on it. l've tried having
Hi Caroline,
Whilst attempting to connect to the network, I'd recommend tailing your
syslog for related messages as it often helps in diagnosing which part of
the connection fails. The System Log application under System
Administration is good for this as you can watch all your logs at once.
On 2/22/08, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right, Im setting up a p3 800mhz 256mb box as a firewall, file server,
media player and to use for other stuff.
Now I will have
ModemPCold wireless router
If I do this, I will have all network traffic coming at it through a
single 10/100
I encounter such attitudes all the time, especially among old school
businessmen. It usually changes once I boot up an Ubuntu live CD for
them, but I often have to expend much dialogue in coercing them to even
take a look.
Tom
Daniel Lamb wrote:
Did anyone see the comment?
I was pleased
Eddie Armstrong wrote:
Sorry to ask MS stuff here but I have been trying for days to find an
answer to this and hope some of you may be able to help.
I have been given two old PCs with MS XP Pro SP2 installed and licence
OEM sticker on the sides and would like to re-install clean XP Pro and
Eddie Armstrong wrote:
Tom Bamford wrote:
I use a mastered ISO which has every
version of XP in both OEM and retail flavours on the one CD.
Thanks Tom - Am dl as we speak.
How does 9 - 1 work? If I burn an iso (will K3B do?) and boot one of the
machines with it do I just choose
Alan Pope wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:52:46PM +, Tom Bamford wrote:
You're right, any OEM install disc will do as long as you have valid
license stickers/serial numbers. I use a mastered ISO which has every
version of XP in both OEM and retail flavours on the one CD. One
Andrew Oakley wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Basically what I want to do is send the second monitor output to an LCD
TV (but not have a complete MythTV installation) which I can just play
videos on.
snip
Then just grab the window you want (eg. MythTV) and drag it off your
first monitor and
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Hi there,I usually have no problem with connecting to wifi, except today
I was in a place where it is netgear. Impossible. I was given the
password but nothing happened, tried switching on and off, but nothing-
then using a default system code,, caused the
Rob Beard wrote:
Maybe someone else might want to advise on partitioning the drives, I
can never remember if /var should have more space than /usr. IIRC
it's down to what you want to use the server for.
Rob
/var is where the logs go, as well as MySQL databases and Apache's
default
Rob Beard wrote:
Josh Blacker wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Andy Watts wrote:
Many thanks guys
l also found the answer at
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree
lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :)
What about the news about the National Marine
Tom Bamford wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Josh Blacker wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Andy Watts wrote:
Many thanks guys
l also found the answer at
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree
lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :)
What about the news about
Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:31:42PM +, Tom Bamford wrote:
Forgot CNN, which is also pretty weak on content.
Reminds me of an American guy I worked with last year.
Him: You know, they need adverts on the BBC!
Me: Why!?
Him: Because I gotta take a pee sometimes, and I
Seif Attar wrote:
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| BBC, Sky, ITN all suck big time. Try watching Al Jazeera, there's always
| something fairly important or interesting on there, and no
| entertainment news (a contradictory term in itself).
I like the jazeera news (I get
Andy Watts wrote:
Hi people
could some kind soul desipher the following dmesg output for me please. it's
a drive that XP recognises ok
[11226.398993] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address
18
[11226.578921] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62
Javad Ayaz wrote:
The IEEE 1394 subsystem is not responding
The raw1394 module must be loaded, and you must have read and write
access to /dev/raw1394
Ok so what does this mean and how can i fix it? should i fix it?
I have no digital cameras/camera of any sort attached!
Regards
Javad
Mac wrote:
You may already have seen this interesting development...
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/enterprise/news/index.cfm?newsid=7193print
Mac
That's pretty cool. I've been using Ubuntu to persuade businesses to
ditch Microsoft and this will definately help
Vitorio Okio wrote:
I've deleted with GParted unwanted Dell Utility partition sited the first
on my HDD. This partition was set as /dev/sda1, so all others followed
correspondignly: /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, etc.
Now after deleting and booting back in Ubuntu my now first partition is
still
Vitorio Okio wrote:
Unfortunately it did not worked. Here is the actual output of my try.
At the first run fdisk reported partitions out of order after printing
the partition table. Then after applying 'x' and 'f' it reported that
partition order was successfully changed.
In reality
Stephen Garton wrote:
On 21/01/2008, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i tried this
cat /dev/sda5/nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/mehndi1.vob /dev/sda5/nuzhet
shadi/mehndi edited/mehndi2.vob /dev/sda5.vob
but it didnt work!!
any ideas?
Javad,
Try cat /dev/sda5/nuzhet shadi/mehndi
Javad Ayaz wrote:
tried both even
cd /media/sda5/nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/ cat mehndi1.vob mehndi2.vob
mehndi_joined.vob
but still no joy!!
The N in nuzhet is upper case. Could that be it?
Yes, you must specify an uppercase N as Linux filenames are case sensitive.
Tom
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Farran wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:45 +, Rob Beard wrote:
gord wrote:
i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with
windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this
strange thing you put on the computer once that they are
Sean Miller wrote:
On 1/12/08, *Alan Pope* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:53:13PM +, Chris Rowson wrote:
Are you entirely sure chaps?
I thought JeOS was a bare-bones operating system designed for people
to base virtual
Michael Holloway wrote:
Has anybody else tried jeOS yet?
I have tried it on 3 different VMWare servers, 2 AMD based, and one
Intel. No matter how hard i try, i cant get it to work. It installs
fine, and then freezes on boot, failing to load the Kernel. It would
appear that it cant mount the
Alan Pope wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 12:56:30PM +, Stephen Garton wrote:
Hi Al,
On 12/01/2008, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 09:13:56AM +, Stephen Garton wrote:
On a box at home, I have ssh running on a non-specific high numbered
port.
I just read an article in Micro Mart mag by a self-proclaimed linux noob
called Jason d'Allison. He set out to install Gutsy after hearing good
things about it, and although it took him 3 weeks to secure a machine to
install it on, after two weeks he was enjoying the difference and after
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Whenever I try to watch any streaming video such
as BBC iPlayer or YouTube things aren't right.
After a few minutes the video will start to pause
and jump in short bursts, the sound is fine. I'm
guessing that my machine cannot cope (or at least
the video card can't),
Hello,
Does anyone know of a PCI ADSL modem that works well with Ubuntu? I have
three of them at home (Nokia, Zoom and an unbranded Conexant-based one)
and none of them seem to work in Linux. If I could find one that works
I'd have my Ubuntu box run my entire network, including being my
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 15:47 +, Tom Bamford wrote:
snip /
However, recent versions of Ubuntu have shown all my laptop drives,
including CF memory cards, as SCSI devices (/dev/sd* as opposed
to /dev/hd*). My desktop dies a horrible death if I try to do
Hi,
My laptop (Thinkpad) has a CompactFlash slot which is essentially a
PC-card slot shrunk down. It's on the PCI bus and when you insert a CF
card it emulates an IDE device. It's hot swappable, but so are the IDE
controllers for the hard drives in the laptop and in the docking station
which
Mark Allison wrote:
Hi there,
I have 6 PCs at home, and have them all connected to a Netgear DG834G
wireless ADSL modem. Some PCs are connected directly, others via
wireless. The current topology is:
ADSL Router--Home LAN
One of my PCs is an Ubuntu server running squid and dansguardian
Tony Arnold wrote:
Kirrus,
Kirrus wrote:
Just seen this on the BBC news site...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7161359.stm
Anyone got any questions?
How about asking him if he plans to invest any of his money in some key
open source projects?
Regards,
Tony.
That's a
If it is this article
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/01/facebook.socialnetworking)
you are referring to, it doesn't say that Facebook have pulled Beacon,
only modified it to stop posting purchasing information publically. It
sounds like they still use the system with the same
Mac wrote:
alan c wrote:
snip
The power saving system is the problem and although it can be
disabled, (using something like
sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sd[Your device] ) I believe seagate do
not accept it as covered by warranty. It is not simply a matter of
fomatting the (NTFS) drive.
Scrase, Eddie wrote:
I remember when I used Mandriva you were able to
get apps to 'autorun' by adding the run command to
a file which was something along the lines of:
/etc/initrd/rc0
I see Ubuntu has similar files so if I wanted to
have an application run at startup which file should
I edit
Philip Newborough wrote:
Regarding the original question, I'm too looking into hosting options
for e-mail. I've been considering paying the $50 per year for the
Google Apps service. I've been using the standard Gmail service for a
number of years now and I'm quite happy with it. I think the
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Anyway, I've tried to create the file systems and
have hit a problem. Once I've created the first
partition as FAT 16 and try to 'mkfs' it I get the
error as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu710 /dev/sdc1
mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
WARNING:
Kris Douglas wrote:
On 06/12/2007, *Tom Bamford* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Anyway, I've tried to create the file systems and
have hit a problem. Once I've created the first
partition as FAT 16 and try to 'mkfs' it I get
norman wrote:
When I switch my computer on the first thing I expect to see is a screen
about Intel and from which, if I so wish, I can access the bios set up.
Since installing Edubuntu this does not happen. All I get is a blank
screen plus an error message complaining about the video support.
norman wrote:
Okay ill stop rambling... my suggestion is to use the Ubuntu live CD and
partition your hard-drive accordingly, and format all the partitions.
but don't install Ubuntu. I would also suggest making a 200MB /boot
partition at the beginning of the HDD. Then install Windows, check that
Mac wrote:
Daniel Thanks for your reassuring advice. I've now tried the
reconfig. Sad to say, I still get the 'Your session has been saved'
message when I click the log out button; the proper log out screen does
not appear; instead, the shutdown wav file plays, the screen clears to
norman wrote:
As promised, here is my report back. The old hard drive was out of the
machine and waiting to be transplanted into the new one. The side was
removed from the new box and then, horror upon horrors, where had the
nice, wide, grey ribbon cable gone? All I could see connected to the
norman wrote:
If that is the case you will probably have to change some of the
jumpers on the ide devices themselves. You should set the jumpers on
the hard drive (ide) to master, and the jumpers on the CD drive to
slave. Then connect the ide hard drove to the first connection on the
cable and
norman wrote:
If I'm following correctly, the Ubuntu drive is SATA. Therefore it
doesn't come into master/slave debate.
That is correct and interesting. Does that mean I could just plug in
another SATA drive without having to worry about setting jumpers etc?
I don't have much
norman wrote:
MBR, can you post the menu.lst and device.map files the from /boot/grub/
directory to the pastebin (or to this list)? Then we can see the current
configuration and maybe make suggestions about what needs to be changed.
Please explain to this ignorant one what is the MBR and
I would install Windows in the same way but after Windows is installed,
you can set the Windows drive to slave and reconnect your Ubuntu drive
as master. Then just add this entry to your grub menu after the line
that reads END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS:
title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1)
Keith Gregory wrote:
norman wrote:
Sorry to keep labouring the point but, please, to avoid total confusion
which do I make the master, Ubuntu or Windows?
Norman
The easiest way is to make windows the master, Ubuntu the slave
kfg
Yep, then reverse the drive order once Windows is
, *Tom Bamford* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it's an ATA or SATA drive can your CMOS program see it?
Tom
Javad Ayaz wrote:
Hi,
Im not sure what ive done ...(well havent disconnected any cables
thats for sure)...but now my system cant see my
Sometimes the Windows boot files get messed about for which a reinstall
may not be necessary. Try booting from a Windows install cd and entering
recovery mode. You'll be asked for your Administrator password - just
press enter if it is blank. You'll get a recovery console with limited
Ha ha ha, that made me chuckle.
Albert Vilella wrote:
Evacuee describes Antarctic rescue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7111080.stm
Got it? No? MS Explorer? ... :-)
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That would be better with an End Now... button :p
Alan Pope wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:28:36PM +, Albert Vilella wrote:
Evacuee describes Antarctic rescue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7111080.stm
Got it? No? MS Explorer? ... :-)
If it's an ATA or SATA drive can your CMOS program see it?
Tom
Javad Ayaz wrote:
Hi,
Im not sure what ive done ...(well havent disconnected any cables
thats for sure)...but now my system cant see my DVD rom.
Any ideas please?
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I like it, it's a nice piece of kit for the money, especially if you
factor in a built-in 3G modem/phone. If you're looking to splash out a
few more notes (say 2-3 times the price) one of my friends has just got
a Toshiba Libretto u100 running Ubuntu. Despite being about the same
size as the
Hi Norman,
As someone who tries to get everyone I help off Windows and onto Ubuntu,
I've had to come up with some unusual solutions. For most needs
excluding 3D graphics I'd recommend installing Windows 2000/XP on a
virtual machine. If you switch off system restore and automatic updates
in
Josh Blacker wrote:
WPA I think. I should know, as I set it up! (Checked: WPA Personal.
Anyone care to explain the difference between Personal and Enterprise?)
WPA personal will use a shared passphrase, with WPA enterprise it will
likely use a Radius server to authenticate users as they
Great idea! I knew there was a reason I've been spending ages tuning my
desktop PC. I'm happy to offer tech help with respect to both the server
and for fellow ATI users with graphics issues.
Tom
Alan Pope wrote:
I've recently been chatting with someone who is enthusiastic about an
Ubuntu
Chris Rowson wrote:
no encryption (me likey give free internet!!)
Is that wise? Surely you are liable for activities conducted through
your Internet service...
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Mac wrote:
Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
And, if you do, do you use
no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
Thinkpad with an Atheros 5212 a/b/g mini-PCI card running Madwifi-ng
drivers. I use WPA (TKIP) and WPA2 (AES) with a nice long passphrase.
SSID
Hi,
I assume you mean the CPU frequency scaling monitor? This doesn't
monitor CPU activity per se, it's for use with mobile processors with
Speedstep technology. When the CPU isn't being maxed out it will run at
a lower clock speed to save energy (to extend battery life) - mine flips
between
I don't know how accurate it is, but I think it reads better if you set
it to show the frequency units rather than a percentage. I've come
across desktops with mobile processors in them before, there may also be
some desktop processors with scaling features that I don't know about.
Regards,
If you are looking for a general CPU usage monitor, add the System
Monitor applet and deselect the memory and swap/load monitors. CPU
frequency scaling is something different.
Regards,
Tom
STONE COLD wrote:
ok so its not reliable...ill set it up in frequency!
is there an alternative to
You don't have to if all you want is a CPU usage monitor. I find the
most useful ones to be processor, memory, network and load.
Regards,
Tom
STONE COLD wrote:
sorry i thought frequency scaling was basically monitoring the cpu
load..hmmm
ill add the system monitor applet...!
out of
Sorry, I meant 20.
Tom Bamford wrote:
Hi Al,
Could I take 10 if you have enough?
Regards,
Tom
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
I have a bunch of Ubuntu case badges which I am selling for 25p each.
They are robust aluminium ones which can replace the Windows/Intel
stickers you often find
Hi Dougie,
Thank you for explaining it a bit more. I have read documentation from
Hitachi on the subject, but couldn't find anything useful on the Samsung
website. I've also noticed today that the count is going up just as
quickly when running on external power as it does on battery power, so
I've been looking at this bug as well and peeked at my drive stats. The
mentioned Load_Cycle_Count stands at 355,884 on my laptop after I
observed it increase by over 150 counts in just a few minutes on battery
power.
Can anyone confirm if there is a correlation between this count and the
How about this: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Like Adobe, it installs a virtual printer to export from any other
print-capable app.
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:27 +, STONE COLD wrote:
sorry perhaps i didnt make myself very clear...i meant an app
independant of OO!
Nevermind, didn't realise you wanted a cross-platform app.
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:47 +, Tom Bamford wrote:
How about this: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Like Adobe, it installs a virtual printer to export from any other
print-capable app.
On Tue, 2007-10-30
I'll second that, very good uptime and low latency with F2S. They also
provide extra IPs if necessary. I used to have XBox Live and it ran much
better with its own public address. I run a server as well which I can
get a good 32KBytes/sec when downloading remotely, even with heavy P2P
sessions I
What model is your laptop? With my ThinkPad I can turn off various
internal devices including the Wireless adapter. In Windows it's a
checkbox to switch on and off but in Ubuntu I have to send commands to
ACPI files in /proc. I believe there are several laptops that work in
the same way.
Hope
I've used it in Feisty. When you're finished with the temporary user
account, you issue an oem-config-prepare command as root and shut the
machine down. The next boot takes you (ie. the end user) through a
config wizard to create a user, set the timezone etc.
Regards,
Tom
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at
That's interesting. On my X31 (great laptop) the Fn-F5 combo does
nothing, I have read that it should operate the bluetooth adapter - I
have to switch it manually if it should get turned off by accident. I
don't have the standard wireless card though, this could account for the
differences.
Tom
Kris Marsh wrote:
By adopting the Adobe Flash(r) Player software, the BBC will make its
free catch-up TV service – BBC iPlayer – available as a streaming
service across Macintosh and Linux(r), as well as Microsoft
Windows(r), by the end of the year.
Lucy wrote:
I agree that it's a big step forward, but it will still require the
use of non-free software from one company and (I think) will still use
DRM. I'm running a 64 bit version of Ubuntu with a 64 bit version of
Firefox, therefore Adobe's flash isn't available to me, unless I use a
32
Try this:
find /path/to/music -name *.m4a -exec rm {} \;
Regards,
Tom
Mac wrote:
I've got a mixture of .flac and .m4a files of the same music scattered
through the multiple sub directories in ~/music. I want to delete all
the .m4a files from which ever subdirectory they happen to be in,
Wulfy wrote:
I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms
of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to
the plain Ubuntu...
I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@)
Has to be Gnome, KDE is just tooo slow and VFS
Mark Allison wrote:
Thanks guys - yes sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start works too. I had a
read of the update-rc.d man page and I ran this command:
update-rc.d cupsys defaults
and I get returned:
System startup links for /etc/init.d/cupsys already exist.
I'm quite new to linux, hence
Does running sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start work as well as a restart?
If cupsys isn't being started at boot, add a symlink in the /etc/rc2.d
directory to /etc/init.d/cupsys (where 2 is the default runlevel).
Regards,
Tom
Mark Allison wrote:
Hi there,
I have ubuntu-server 7.04 running
andylockran wrote:
We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard
Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
installed.
Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
something to waste their time.. let's all take
We use old laptops as servers for some tasks, mostly IBM ThinkPads
because they're very well supported in Ubuntu and because they last for
years. You don't get the performance you'd expect from a full-size unit
and expansion/redundancy options are limited, but in this context (home
networks)
It really depends how the machine is set up. If the Windows installation
is on its own partition or disk, with the valuable data on another
partition, you can use the Ubuntu installer to reformat the Windows
volume and install there. Your other partitions/drives will be mounted
when the
Hi,
I use the KDE bluetooth utilities, they work just as well in Gnome.
Install and run kbluetoothd which will give you a tray icon. Left click
it to browse nearby bluetooth devices, and click on 'obex push' icon for
a device to send files to it.
Regards.
Tom
STONE COLD wrote:
hi
ok
i
Hi David,
I've always found support for USB mass storage devices to be excellent
in Ubuntu. I haven't come across a drive that isn't automatically
recognised and mounted, no matter what filesystem you choose to use on
it. Even my SE mobile works as a card reader on Ubuntu out of the box.
If
Hello,
Install the ntfs-3g and ntfs-config packages, and maybe reboot if
necessary. You should get read access to your partitions, you can then
run 'gksudo ntfs-config' to enable write-support.
Regards,
Tom
STONE COLD wrote:
Hi,
I have a dual boot...my windows OS detects my
I believe it's better to use ntfs-3g rather than ntfs as the filesystem
type, unless they mean the same thing now.
Regards
Michael Holloway wrote:
Whats your sudo fdisk -l output.
You should still be able to mount them - with mount or just putting
them in fstab (replacing sbd1 with
Hello,
Having work with an Orange livebox for a client, I can say they are
terrible units with poor firmware and fault tolerance. The two I used
frequently dropped the ppp connection for no reason and gave mediocre
Wifi range and performance. The service itself didn't seem too bad, if
you are
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